Rught. Lorelai was rather two-faced about the whole situation. Ironically, by season 7 Lorelai herself was middle class, a successful business owner who owned her own home. Even Emily and Richard acknowledged this when they were discussing Luke and Lorelai's net worth when they were engaged, and how they needed to protect themselves from
Identity theft. Her hostility towards her parents for their wealth becomes rather silly at that point.
It seemed to me that Lorelai gave both Dean and Jess a lot more leeway for their mistakes. When Logan pilfered Emily's cigarette tray as part of a prank, Lorelai acted as though he had committed armed robbery. It seemed to me at that point that she had no intentions of ever accepting Logan as part of Rory's life. I think it was an issue of control. Lorelai had felt that she could still be in control of Rory's life while Rory was dating Dean and Jess. She did not have any control over Rory when she was dating Logan for reasons others have already mentioned. For the first time in Rory's life, Lorelai was not the center of Rory's attention-- a young man was, and that was a difficult adjustment for Lorelai to have made. Eating pie with Logan was a symbol of her finally letting Rory grow up.
I wish that in the Revival we would have seen a fully mature Rory, settled in a mature relationship with a man
(my preference would have been Logan, but any man would have done), with Rory and Lorelai having an aduld friendship. That, to me, would have been them going "full circle," not ASP's version of Rory drifting about aimlessly in her life, moving back home, and then getting pregnant without haven't wanted a pregnancy.
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perfect_lover2012
8 years ago
The show seems to ignore that the middle class exists. Yes Rory and Lorelai aren't as privileged as most of the Chilton students or Logan but they have a choice something the show ignores until Logan confronts Rory in season 7. Kudos to the writers for that long overdue moment. Rory wasn't Marty. He worked multiple jobs while being in school full time and Rory didn't need to work. If she did she had plenty of contacts even from Lorelai to get a job at the inn, the bookstore in SH, etc. I never really understood the hostility against Logan mostly because Lorelai has more in common with him than any of her other boyfriends. She was the smart, privileged kid who wanted to make her own path for personal reasons. I think when Lorelai fights with Logan, she's really fighting herself because he went to Yale, the right prep schools, and has the chance to truly take the world by storm without starting way at the bottom. I don't believe that Lorelai would mock him for having a journal where he writes ideas or complain about him living with Rory when she lived with him before and supported her. The adult friendship would've been the ideal and natural outcome of the BFFs when Rory was a kid scenario.
"When life gives you lemons"
Jessica D: sleep with their fathers and have secret lemon children
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